Features of the Garden. 
The method through which the Garden was built up by 
successive additions resulted in an absence of combination 
between its several parts, in great measure a consequence of want 
of adequate funds to make the necessary alterations in the 
grounds. During the past twenty-three years, in which the 
Garden has been wholly under the administration of the Com- 
missioners of H.M. Works, the bringing about of this combination 
has been in progress. The work is not yet completed, and the 
Plan of the Garden which is attached to this sketch shows the 
area of the Garden as it is laid out at this date—June, rorz2. 
Future editions will show further changes as the work of re- 
construction proceeds. 
From its foundation the Botanic Garden has been devoted to 
the teaching of Botany, and its usefulness in this respect has 
determined the laying out of its area. 
Herbaceous Garden.—A considerable space is occupied by 
a collection of herbaceous plants arranged for study in natural 
orders. 
Rock Garden.—There is an extensive rockwork upon which 
alpine and rarer herbaceous plants are cultivated. 
Arboretum.—tThe whole of the western area of the Garden 
is in process of arrangement as an Arboretum of trees and 
shrubs, and the positions of some of the chief genera are indicated 
on the plan. The Conifere are now placed in the ground 
adjacent to the Rock Garden. 
- Herbaceous Border.—Along the North Boundary of the 
Arboretum a mixed Herbaceous Border has been planted. 
The Plant-Houses are still in process of reconstruction. 
So far as they have been rearranged at the present time they 
consist of a long range to the north of the herbaceous collection, 
composed of a Central Green-house (C), from the sides of which 
two Corridors run east and west. In the Entrance Porch (D) to 
the Central Green-house is a collection of Insectivorous Plants. 
From the Eastern Corridor two houses project to the south—one 
